Body Quote by James Madison

To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary laws of…

— Adam Smith

A well regulated commerce is not, like law, physic, or divinity, to be overstocked with hands; but, on the contrary, flourishes by multitudes, and…

— Joseph Addison

The regulation of commerce, it is true, is a new power; but that seems to be an addition which few oppose and from which…

— James Madison

“when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the…

— Jon Meacham

The system has for its object an increase of persons that are to intervene between the producer and the consumer, living on the product…

— Henry Charles Carey

In the nature of things, those who have no property and see their neighbors possess much more than they think them to need, cannot…

— Daniel Webster

We may conclude, therefore, that, in order to establish laws for the regulation of property, we must be acquainted with the nature and situation…

— David Hume

“Goods of production—material or immaterial—such as land, factories, practical or artistic skills, oblige their possessors to employ them in ways that will benefit the…

— Libreria Editrice Vaticana

The laws that we adopt embody the values and mores of our constituents.

— Joe Moore

On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by…

— Thomas Malthus

“According, therefore, as this produce, or what is purchased with it, bears a greater or smaller proportion to the number of those who are…

— Adam Smith

Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater…

— Michel de Montaigne